UiTM Faculty of Law


UiTM Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate faculties of UiTM and is located in Shah Alam, Malaysia. It is among the notable public premier law school in Malaysia.
The current dean of the faculty is Dr. Hartini Saripan, who assumed the role in 2018.
The faculty currently consists of some 100 academic staff. It has about 1,144 students studying pre-law, BLS and LL.B.
WWW law.uitm.edu.my

History

The Faculty of Law was founded in 1968. It was formerly known as the Faculty of Administration and Law and before as the School of Administration and Law. It began as a centre offering British external programmes, namely the LL.B University of London and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. The only internal programme offered then was the Diploma in Public Administration and Local Government.
On 14 January 2004, the Faculty of Administration and Law have been separated to two faculties namely the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies.

Programmes

Undergraduate

In 1978, the LL.B University of London programme was discontinued and replaced by the Diploma in Law programme. The DIL programme is equivalent to the LL.B programme offered in British Universities. It is a three-year academic programme based on the structure of British Universities undergraduate law programmes. Unlike most of the British programmes however, the DIL programme at the faculty is conducted on a semester system.
Soon after, the faculty had renamed its programmes and DIL was renamed as the LL.B . The LL.B programme, however, was postgraduate programmes.
replaced with the Bachelor of Legal Studies or BLS, which was introduced in 2002.
In 1982, the faculty introduced a one-year Advanced Diploma in Law programme for graduates of the DIL programme. The ADIL programme is equivalent to a LL.B degree and recognised for legal practice. It is a simulatory programme designed to provide professional training for students in preparation for their career in the legal practice as Advocates and Solicitors. ADIL then became the LL.B. This LL.B programme is unique in which it was designed after the Inns of Court in England. The students are put in a simulated legal office environment in which they are designated in firms and given case studies.
The BLS programme was discontinued by the faculty in the recent years. Currently, the faculty is only offering the four-years LL.B programme for undergraduate while still maintaining the Final-year as the professional training-course. Graduates of this programme are eligible to practice as deputy public prosecutors, federal counsels, parliamentary draftsmen in the attorney general's chambers, or Judicial Legal Services as magistrates, arbitrators and also be admitted as advocates and solicitors.

Controversy

In 2007, former Dean, Khalid Yusoff, was jailed three months for forgery and cheating in the July 2001 Certificate in Legal Practice examination "master list". In May 2010, he was freed by the Court of Appeal.

Notable staff

Alumni